Latest revision as of 01:43, 25 November 2009

NSRL_Bloom XML is an XML Forensics object that is used to represent bloom filters encoded using the NPS NSRL Bloom Filter package.

Parameters stored in the bloom filter XML are the number of bits in the input hash, M (which is log2 of the number of bits in the Bloom filter), the number of partitions from the hash function to use, a comment, and the bloom filter itself. The bloom filter is typically encoded using base64 coding and can optionally be compressed with zlib.

Sample

This bloom filter holds the SHA1 codes of the ASCII numbers "0" through "999":